A series of judicial reviews has exposed critical gaps in how local and central government regulate EMF exposure. On 26th November 2025 a new case “REULA7” was lodged. It is a 60pp submission proving incompatibility between domestic law and retained EU obligations. The legal lever being used is the duty to align UK law with the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC), which requires local authorities to reconcile health risks before approving new wireless infrastructure.
Under EECC Annex I(3)(b) and Article 45(h), public health must be treated as imperative, and risk reconciliation must occur before deciding whether to impose a health condition. Yet both local authorities and courts have systematically avoided this obligation. See BLOG here.
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The much disputed mast application in Cheltenham has just been resolved. Despite various legal challenges not resulting in an overturning of the prior approval ‘granted’, the Telco applicant has decided not to erect the mast anyway. A strong local campaign against the mast which included a building within the exclusion zone resulted in a weight of public feeling achieving a retreat. Latest case: Thomas V Cheltenham – UKSC 0066. Also see Legal Update Blog
Massachusetts Supreme Court to Hear Landmark Cell Tower Case – result ?
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Wireless, Non-Ionizing Radiation And Children’s Health At School. A presentation by Dr. Erica Mallery Blythe. A secondary school near London has decided to hardwire internet, and a few others have been inspired by this engagement. Speaking to educators, parents, and policymakers, Dr. Mallery-Blythe explains that while society has long accepted wireless technology as harmless, modern research tells a very different story.
Stop the FCC Cell Tower Fast Track: EMF Remedy, youtube
Stop The FCC Cell Tower Fast Track: A Video Primer to Share with Keith Cutter and Theodora Scarato
The Feds’ Proposal to Fast Track Cell Towers and Strip Local Control. Environmental Health News. Youtube 1hr.
Light It Up For Local Control! Stop the federal cell tower takeover. CHD.
Meanwhile in the UK de-regulation follows suit: this is the consultation announcement on a 2025/2026 NPPF with a new section 9 on Telecoms.
Is EMF Cooking Your Mitochondria? Naomi Wolf. Dr. Martha Herbert and activist Camilla Rees warn about a new set of proposed bills that would place 5G telecom towers every 750 feet, overturning local limitations on siting these dangerous structures.
Are you an animal lover, or a lover of plants? In their new paper, author B. Blake Levitt and team point out how man-made radiation is harming our plants and animals and how international standards aren’t addressing the problem. They also point out ways the problem can be addressed.
A Key Scientific Paper of the Past Year Reveals Electromagnetic Field Risks to Almost All Life on Earth. A major scientific synthesis by Henshaw and Philips (2024), ranked among one of the most read papers in the International Journal of Radiation Biology over the past year. The paper reveals something extraordinary and deeply alarming. Almost all life on earth is magnetosensitive.
World’s first wireless charging highway in France powers EVs at 200 kW while driving
10 Studies Detail Health Risks of 5G. Dr Mercola, update from 5 years ago.
In the words of our campaigner Neil McDougall, working closely with Karen Churchill on the lateset REULA7 submission, which follows their Objectors Rights ‘RRR’ case.
“Legal outcomes which define public rights aren’t a narrative, they are acts of fact.The Environmental Health Service are protecting the August 2021 Colombia Court ruling that the FCC are obliged to reassess its emission guidelines against extensive evidence of RF harms that it hadn’t taken into account, and still refuses to do so.
The European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) agreed whilst the UK was an EU Member State declared that public health was imperative to the rollout of telecommunication services, and mechanisms were designed in to the provisions of the EECC to achieve that imperative purpose.
Public rights to health protection and participation in decision making on the installation of mast and small cell systems in the US, the UK and across remaining EU Members States are at stake if regulators fail to enact such provisions, and deny their legal obligations.”
Both the Environmental Health Services and the ICBE-EMF raised alarm re wireless deregulation, without impact:
Environmental Health Sciences Urges Senate to Demand Transparency and Accountability from FCC on Cell Tower, Cell Phone and Wireless Radiation Risk. Report from the US on the outcome of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation being challenged by the US Environmental Health Trust ahead of its Monday 15 December Federal Communications Commission (FCC) oversight hearing, urging Senators to confront what it describes as serious failures in transparency, oversight, and enforcement related to wireless radiation, public health and the environment
Velma Lyrae vs Somerset Council
https://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2025/3261.html&query=(Lyrae)
